The team, which includes Forterra and Oshkosh, used the Project Convergence Capstone 5 experiment to fire a Joint Reduced Range Rocket training round that is currently in source selection.
The service is funneling nearly $30 million into the program to add in Forterra’s AutoDrive system into the JLTV-based launcher.
Consolidate network monitoring, performance management, and fault isolation into a single, comprehensive solution.
“I want to make it very clear that the turret is not a mission essential system, if the turret was to go down, the vehicle is still mission capable,” said Clifton Boyd, the project manager for the Stryker brigade combat team.
Oshkosh Defense’s Stryker MCWS advances battlefield lethality with soldier-driven design, delivering enhanced firepower and flexibility for the U.S. Army’s modernization efforts.
Soldiers will begin receiving the Strykers outfitted with 30mm cannons next fall, or roughly nine months to a year later than initially anticipated.
Developed to increase situational awareness, deliver decisive lethality, and provide tactical options in support of multi-domain operations.
The initial command and control gateway to earn a continuous Authority to Operate is changing multi-domain operations.
Although the service has awarded contracts to wind down leader-follower development and give the experimental trucks back to soldiers, a separate office has launched a prototyping competition.
The versatile and proven Oshkosh Defense HEMTT and PLS provide the payload, protection, and digital infrastructure to support virtually any mission – today and for years to come.
The Government Accountability Office will weigh in on the Army’s multi-billion decision by mid-June.
Meanwhile, the Army awaits word on whether Oshkosh Defense will protest multi-billion-dollar deal, potentially delaying the JLTV timeline.
Blending superior optics, advanced stabilization and AI-powered autonomy in a compact and rugged system, ASELFLIR 600 delivers unmatched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
The US company and the Zahid Group are teaming up on tactical wheeled vehicle programs.
“The Army succeeded in obtaining a lower cost than the independent government cost estimate through the recompete,” said Michael Sprang, the service’s JLTV project manager.
A recent Congressional Research Service report told lawmakers they need to scrutinize the contract’s details to determine if the Army will save money with the new deal.
Current maker of the infantry vehicle, Oshkosh Defense, must face competitors to be Army/Marine supplier.